Children's Dreams

by Jung, Lorenz; Meyer-grass, Maria; Falzeder, Ernst; Woolfson, Tony (COL)

• ISBN13: 9780691133232
• ISBN10: 0691133239
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-17
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

In the 1930s C. G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his findings in a four-year seminar series at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.Children's Dreamsmarks their first publication in English, and fills a critical gap in Jung's collected works. Here we witness Jung the clinician more vividly than ever before--and he is witty, impatient, sometimes authoritarian, always wise and intellectually daring, but also a teacher who, though brilliant, could be vulnerable, uncertain, and humbled by life's great mysteries. These seminars represent the most penetrating account of Jung's insights into children's dreams and the psychology of childhood. At the same time they offer the best example of group supervision by Jung, presenting his most detailed and thorough exposition of Jungian dream analysis and providing a picture of how he taught others to interpret dreams. Presented here in an inspired English translation commissioned by the Philemon Foundation, these seminars reveal Jung as an impassioned educator in dialogue with his students and developing the practice of analytical psychology. An invaluable document of perhaps the most important psychologist of the twentieth century at work, this splendid volume is the fullest representation of Jung's views on the interpretation of children's dreams, and signals a new wave in the publication of Jung's collected works as well as a renaissance in contemporary Jung studies.

Author Biography

Lorenz Jung was a grandson of C. G. Jung. Now deceased, he was a Jungian analyst in private practice. Maria Meyer-Grass is a Jungian analyst in private practice. Ernst Falzeder is a historian of psychoanalysis and the editor of "The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham, 1907-1925".

Table of Contents

Note to the English Edition	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
On the Method of Dream Interpretation	p. 1
Seminar on Children's Dreams (Winter Term, 1936/37)	p. 32
Psychological Interpretation of Children's Dreams (Winter Term, 1938/39)	p. 104
Psychological Interpretation of Children's Dreams (Winter Term, 1939/40)	p. 236
Seminar on Children's Dreams (Winter Term, 1940/41)	p. 379
Dream Series of a Boy	p. 469
Bibliography	p. 471
Index	p. 479
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